Man faces additional bomb threat charges

PORT CLINTON – The Salem Township man who admitted last month to making bomb threats against area schools faces new charges after a grand jury indicted him Wednesday.

Charles Tingler, 22, faces three felony counts of inducting panic, three felony counts of disrupting public services, two misdemeanor counts of disrupting public services and one misdemeanor count of aggravated menacing.

The charges were filed in Ottawa County Common Pleas Court. Tingler is being held without bail in the Ottawa County Detention Facility.

Tingler was already in the jail on one felony count of inducing panic.

He admitted to using websites — likely with an app on a cellphone — to disguise his voice and phone number, Ottawa County Prosecutor Mark Mulligan said last month.

He told investigators he made bomb threats against Oak Harbor High School, Oak Harbor Middle School, Sandusky High School and Waite High School in Toledo. He also called in false reports of people with guns at Port Clinton Middle School and the Fremont Wal-Mart, said Agent Don St. Clair of the Ottawa County Drug Task Force.

The grand jury also indicted:

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Garret Zunk, 20, Bay Township, on two felony counts of kidnapping and one count each of rape, aggravated vehicular assault and assault.

He is charged with forcing a woman to leave a party at a township home with him May 3, striking a man who tried to help her escape with his truck and then sexually assaulting the woman.

Zunk was already being held in the Ottawa County Detention Facility on charges related to this case.

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Dustin Clefford, 18, Genoa, on one felony count of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony. He is charged with trying to alter a urine test conducted by a law enforcement officer earlier this month.

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Rory Sipperey Jr., 33, who is being held in the Ottawa County Detention Facility, on one felony count of domestic violence. He is charged with causing serious injuries to someone in April.